Rockies (Jake Bird, RHP) @ Nationals (Patrick Corbin, LHP)
Royals (Ryan Yarbrough, LHP) @ Guardians (Logan Allen, LHP)
Mariners (Luis Castillo, RHP) @ Twins (Kenta Maeda, RHP)
Rangers (Jon Gray, RHP) @ Astros (Brandon Bielak, RHP)
Reds (Graham Ashcraft, RHP) @ Brewers (Colin Rea, RHP)
Pirates (Quinn Priester, RHP) @ Padres (Yu Darvish, RHP)
Cardinals (Adam Wainright, RHP) @ D-backs (Kyle Nelson, RHP)
Blue Jays (Jose Berrios, RHP) @ Dodgers (Michael Grove, RHP)
Pitching Preferences
- Yu Darvish
- Luis Castillo
- Logan Allen
- Kenta Maeda
- Jose Berrios
- Brandon Bielak
- Patrick Corbin
- Graham Ashcraft
Favorite Teams
- Padres
- Blue Jays
- D-backs
- Cardinals
- Nationals
- Reds
- Dodgers
- Guardians
- Astros
- Rangers
Batter Ranks
- Juan Soto
- Corbin Carroll
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr
- Fernando Tatis Jr
- Manny Machado
- Kyle Tucker
- Freddie Freeman
- Paul Goldschmidt
- Mookie Betts
- Nolan Arenado
- Lane Thomas
- Elly De La Cruz
- CJ Abrams
- Matt McLain
- Bo Bichette
- Ketel Marte
- Christian Walker
- Alex Bregman
- Marcus Semien
- Christian Yelich
- Jose Ramirez
- George Springer
- Brandon Belt
- Henry Davis
- Bryan Reynolds
- Max Muncy
- Will Smith
- Adolis Garcia
- Xander Bogaerts
- Lourdes Gurriel
- TJ Friedl
- Jake Fraley
- Spencer Steer
- Bobby Witt Jr
- Josh Naylor
- Teoscar Hernandez
- Matt Chapman
- Yordan Alvarez
- Julio Rodriguez
- Jeimer Candelario
Good Monday morning! I hope you all had good weekends. I saw Barbie on Saturday, and had a great time. A very fun movie that I would see again just to witness the brilliance that is Ryan Gosling as (one of many) Ken. This tweet from b3isbol really sums up his performance to a T.
I’m going to see Oppenheimer today, and I couldn’t be more excited. I’m going to try to cram in some drafts before I go, as I really do enjoy this slate. Not a lot of pitching available, but a lot of big name bats in some pretty good spots.
One matchup in particular I’d like to highlight is Quinn Priester facing the Padres in San Diego. This is not likely to end well for Q. His stuff is just simply not good enough to generate a lot of swing and miss. He started off his start against the Guardians last week with 9 straight outs, most of them being weak ground balls. That looked pretty promising! Until it wasn’t. I had a feeling this matchup would have been difficult. Priester didn’t generate many whiffs in the minors, and the Guardians have the lowest K% in the league as a team. It seemed like a recipe for him to get hit often, and things eventually did go this way as he left having gave up 7 ER in 5.1 IP, with only 2 Ks.
Now, insert the Padres in San Diego. What strikes me as odd is The Bat doesn’t think Q is a dead man walking today. There are 8 team stacks today that it prefers over the Padres. I’m not sure the Underdog streets will reflect that, but I’m making the Padres a target regardless today.
I’m jumping back on the Rangers band wagon today. Without Seager in the lineup, I don’t foresee many drafters going out of their way to stack the Rangers. This feels like decent leverage as they head to Houston to take on Brandon Bielak today, a pitcher who is mid but is currently way over performing his expected stats. He actually sports reverse splits so far in his career, so I’ll hope that isn’t just noise and stack up Marcus Semien, Adolis Garcia, and Josh Jung today.
Speaking of this game, Yordan Alvarez is expected to return to the lineup today. He’s currently going in the last round in drafts. I would load up on him before the good news creeps in, and take the swap on him if it turns out he isn’t ready. Keep this between us girls, yeah? We don’t need this getting mushed to high heaven.
Good luck to everyone reading this. I’ll post a pick’em for the Xander Bogaerts 0.5 Singles Higher/Lower special today on twitter. Based on the above, the higher seems like the best move. Have a great week all.
Nez
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